This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I'll let the door, hit you right in the face
And when the check comes, I'll make ya pay
Don't have a car, I guess you're picking me up
And in the backseat, we'll be falling in love
My only job is, to lie on this couch
And while you're working, I'll be hanging out
Now don't get mad 'cause, you knew from the start
I was an asshole who would never go far
'Cause when you're really good to girls
Give them your entire world
They end up walking away, hey hey
They don't want a stand up guy
Rather have you cheat and lie
And do something they hate
Girls don't want a gentleman
They say they do but in the end
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
If you want to get to them
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Your parents cry
When you bring me around
They raised you up
Just so I could take you down
There goes your life
Right before their eyes
I'll have ya barefoot
Pregnant going out of your mind
'Cause when you're really good to girls
Give them your entire world
They end up walking away, hey hey
They don't want a stand up guy
Rather have you cheat and lie
And do something they hate
Girls don't want a gentleman
They say they do but in the end
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
If you want to get to them
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
I used to be a nice guy
But that don't get you anywhere
So now I am just a piece of shit, idiot
Who's too stupid to care
When you give a girl respect
Treat her like she is the best
You're nothing to her
She'd rather have you playing games
Piss her off and make her wait
If you want to do her
Girls don't want a gentleman
They say they do but in the end
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
If you want to get to them
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
They say they do but in the end
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
If you want to get to them
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
They want a loser like me
They want a loser like me
And when the check comes, I'll make ya pay
Don't have a car, I guess you're picking me up
And in the backseat, we'll be falling in love
My only job is, to lie on this couch
And while you're working, I'll be hanging out
Now don't get mad 'cause, you knew from the start
I was an asshole who would never go far
'Cause when you're really good to girls
Give them your entire world
They end up walking away, hey hey
They don't want a stand up guy
Rather have you cheat and lie
And do something they hate
Girls don't want a gentleman
They say they do but in the end
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
If you want to get to them
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Your parents cry
When you bring me around
They raised you up
Just so I could take you down
There goes your life
Right before their eyes
I'll have ya barefoot
Pregnant going out of your mind
'Cause when you're really good to girls
Give them your entire world
They end up walking away, hey hey
They don't want a stand up guy
Rather have you cheat and lie
And do something they hate
Girls don't want a gentleman
They say they do but in the end
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
If you want to get to them
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
I used to be a nice guy
But that don't get you anywhere
So now I am just a piece of shit, idiot
Who's too stupid to care
When you give a girl respect
Treat her like she is the best
You're nothing to her
She'd rather have you playing games
Piss her off and make her wait
If you want to do her
Girls don't want a gentleman
They say they do but in the end
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
If you want to get to them
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
They say they do but in the end
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
Girls don't want a gentleman
If you want to get to them
Girls don't want a gentleman
They want a loser like me
They want a loser like me
They want a loser like me
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Gentleman Lyrics as written by David J. Brenner David Brenner
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even though i'm a girl and (seriously if any guy treats a girl like this what the hell?) i have to agree with this song. every girl wants this perfect handsome sweet guy but it's the badass idiots that get every girl going. every girl wants a gentlemen but it's always going to be the bastards that treat them like crap that they'll chase and never feel complete without. i really hope i do find that "gentlemen" but seriously, more girls fall for the idiot stuff guys pull.
"Cause when you're really good to girls, give them their entire world They end up walking away, hey hey They don't want a stand up guy They'd rather have you cheat and lie And do something they hate"
so true...so true